The Fifth Season is a 2015 science fantasy novel by American writer N. K. Jemisin. [1][2] It was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. It is the first volume in the Broken Earth series and is followed by The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky. The Fifth Season takes place on a planet with a single supercontinent called the Stillness.
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The Fifth Season is set on a supercontinent called the Stillness that is constantly rocked by seismic activity, some of it devastating to civilization and causing an extended winter referred to as a “ Fifth Season.” The story is split into three separate narratives. One, narrated in the second person, follows a middle-aged woman named Essun from a small town called Tirimo. The other two ...
The Fifth Season (2015) is a science fiction/fantasy novel by the author N.K. Jemisin. It is the first novel in the Broken Earth series, and won a Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2016. It was followed by the novels The Obelisk Gate in 2016 and The Stone Sky in 2017. This is the way the world ends for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent ...
The Fifth Season WINNER OF THE 2016 HUGO: BEST NOVEL This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Meanwhile, mighty Sanze — the world-spanning empire whose innovations have been civilization’s ...